The PBCS Movie Standings: "Puss" Has Staying Power

Published at 3:20 PM EST on Nov 7, 2011 | Updated at 2:46 PM EDT on May 30, 2012

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After grossing just $34 million in its opening weekend against a $130 million budget, the PBCS standings deemed "Puss In Boots" a flop. Ah, but that was before this weekend, when the 3D-animated adventure grossed virtually the same amount. That kind of staying power will get you a little bump in our metrics, as you're about to see. Your box office figures look like this, according to Box Office Mojo:

If I have one quibble with our formula (and really, we just made it up on the fly. It's pretty fallible, now that I think about it), it's that budgets might matter a bit too much. Three of the top five movies in our standings grossed less than one million dollars this weekend, but had their scores inflated by paltry budgets. That seems unfair. So from now on, I'm instituting a new rule. You MUST gross over a million bucks if you want to make this chart. Otherwise, you're not major enough for our little shell game. That would put "Puss" at #2 and give it proper credit for its triumph this weekend. By the way, PA3 is still going strong. We may not see the likes of it again--until PA4.